I spent three months with the Flex BTS Automation team at the Austin, TX site. My internship projects focused on writing software that interfaced with our robot cells' PLCs to record and monitor potential failures. The applications and scripts I created are now being shared with our China team with the goal of making them standard across their prefabricated automation cells we used.
I interned at Four Points Platinum Manufacturing in Austin, Tx as a CNC programmer, where I was assigned a lathe from the 90s that had sat idle for a few years. After a deep cleaning, hours of troubleshooting with FANUC's help line, and a few custom parts, I brought it back into working condition. I later added a bar puller and macro to automate stock feeding, reducing time needed to tend the machine. In my final weeks I set up a post-processor for a 3+1 axis mill and was able to create a program that brought an outsourced part back in-house.
I enrolled in the Mechanical Engineering program at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi where I will be entering my junior year this fall and starting my first year as the communications coordinator for the Islander Cyber Society.
My high school had a large FFA program and I took every agricultural mechanics course that was offered. Because of my interest, a few friends and I formed a team that competed in some of the FFA skills contests hosted at different collages. This, along with an interest for making things that I pursued at home, turned me into a passionate and skilled fabricator by the time of my high school graduation.